Energy Management, in Need of Reformation

There is no doubt that our daily life depends on the energy supply. Probably, your laptop or phone is getting charged while you are reading this article; Later, you may open the fridge to drink water and need gas to prepare a meal. All energy sources, including water, electricity, and gas, play a prominent role not only in our personal lives but also in our organizations and industries. However, with population increase and countries’ industrialization, the irregular and unmanaged use of these resources has increased. Since life without energy resources is unimaginable, it is better to think of solutions today!

Internet of Things, Champion of Disrupt

Various solutions have been introduced to manage energy consumption optimally, the most prominent of which can be achieved by new technologies. Technologies such as the Internet of Things (IoT) and its integration with other technologies such as artificial intelligence, big data, and machine learning can enable energy distribution management, real-time consumption monitoring, and analysis.

IoT technology plays a key role in the development of smart city, smart fleet, smart building, and smart farming solutions. Between 2021-2025, the cumulative annual growth rate of using IoT in the energy sector is expected to reach 11/8%. Here, you can see some impressive IoT applications for optimizing energy consumption:

• Smart water, electricity, and gas meters

• Real-time energy consumption monitoring by web or mobile apps

• Using smart home appliances for reducing energy consumption

• Identifying high-consumption appliances and peak times for optimal planning

• Implementing smart lights in urban and rural areas

• Smart distribution of resources by analyzing different regions’ consumption

• Detecting damage or leakage by comparing energy input and output

• Forecasting the amount of energy consumption and costs for optimal planning

You probably have a thousand other ideas reaching your creative mind now that you know better about the rising energy market and the power of IoT in this sector. But, when applying IoT capabilities to implement your ideas, you will need certain skills and tools. Thingspod can be a dreamy tool to make your ideas come true!

ThingsPod, the Ideal Tool

ThingsPod is a comprehensive Internet of Things platform for managing your IoT devices, which makes processing, storing, and displaying data fast, easy, and delightful.

You can send all sorts of data related to the vehicle location, cargo status, and driver behavior to the ThingsPod platform using smart devices (nodes). Thingspod supports many web protocols such as MQTT, HTTP, and CoAP and other industrial protocols such as Modbus, OPC-UA, and LoRaWAN. Then, you will be able to process your data from fleet devices through platform programming blocks and display the information by default widgets.

In ThingsPod, you can manage energy consumption in the following ways:

• Collecting different data from smart meters and other devices

• Using Rules Engine for processing the gathered data and generating alerts

• Calculating data and sending information to external systems

• Displaying historical or real-time data by flexible dashboards

• Defining Roles for managing users’ access to devices and dashboards

• Remote control and OTA update for smart devices

• Sending information with custom frameworks to external user apps

• Achieving all initiatives with almost no coding!